As a mixture of the tragic and the farcical, the 1904-5 voyage of
an antiquated Russian fleet halfway around the world, only to be
destroyed by Japan at the battle of Tsushima, is hard to beat in
the annals of military incompetence. The squadron, under Admiral
Rojdestvensky, set off from northern Russia with orders to locate
and sink the Japanese. However, their first inglorious encounter
was with a group of British fishing vessels near the Dogger Bank in
the North Sea. The Russians mistook the peaceful trawlers for
Japanese warships and opened fire, damaging the boats and almost
causing war with Britain. When the Russians eventually reached the
Far East they were attacked and destroyed within a few minutes by
modern Japanese firepower at the battle of Tsushima - rightly seen
as ushering in hi-tech 20th century naval warfare, and the arrival
of Japan as a major power. This book is based on the posthumous
letters to his wife of Eugene Politovsky, Engineer-in-Chief to the
Russian fleet, who was killed in the battle. They give a graphic
account of life in the chaotic Russian fleet. Tsushima presaged the
crushing defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War which touched
off the 1905 Revolution - a dress rehearsal for 1917.
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